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(No Model.)

M. N. FORNEY.

CAR SEAT.

No. 360,148. Patented 1V[a1-.29, 1887.

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WITNESSES III I vision was made for the variation of distance UNTTED STATES MATTHIAS N. FORNEY,

PATENT QFFICE.

OF NE? YORK, N. Y.

CAR-SEAT.

SPECIFICATZGN forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,148, dated March 29, 1887.

Serial No. 323,753. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MATTHIAS N. FO'RNEY, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Oar-Seats, of which improvement the following is a specification.

My present invention is an improvement upon one of the features of that for which Letters Patent of the United States No. 324,825 were granted and issued to me under date of August 25, 1885; and its object is to simplify and perfect the means for coupling the seat to the crossed links by which it is supported, so as to admit of the variation of distance between the seat pivots or supports induced in the reversal of the seat-back, and enable the I change of position and inclination of the seat which is desired and is due to such reversal to be properly and readily effected.

To this end my invention, generally stated, consists in the combination of a car-seat having elongated end bearings, and crossed links pivoted to the seat-arms or supporting-frame, and having pivots on their lower ends fitting freely in the bearings of the seat.

The improvement claimed is hereinafter fully set forth.

In the construction described and shown in my Letters Patent No. 312i, 825 aforesaid; probetween the seat pivots or supports of the supporting crossed links in the reversal of the seat-back by the employment of a sliding frame, to which the seat-pivots of two opposite links were attached, and which permitted the movement of said pivots relatively to the seat-pivots of the other two-links. As an alternative construction, the seat was pivoted to the links at one side only and provided at bottom with a double-inclined rocker, through either incline of which it was supported at the'side which was not coupled to the links on the seat-rail or stationary frame-piece. Under my present invention, in lieu of the construction above referred to, I employ the simpler and more desirable one now to be described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an end View in elevation of a car-seat embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a similar view with the seat-arm removed and the seat-back reversed; Fig. 3, a similar view with the seatback turned halfway over; Fig. 4, a front view with the seat proper removed, and Fig. 5 an end view of the seat.

The seat-back A is, as in my prior construction, coupled at each end by pivots a a to the upper ends of two intersecting or crossed links or seat-back arms, D D, fitted, respectively, to vibrate on fixed pivots c and 0, located in line horizontally upon the seat-arms G, which are supported on legs or standards a, fixed to the floor of the car.

The seat B is supported by the crossed links D D, in the lower ends of which it is supported, as presently to be described, and in the reversal of the seat-back the movement in short arcs of the lower ends of the links D D reverses, as before, the inclination of the seat and moves the same horizontally in opposite direction to the movement of the seat-back, so that the proper relation of the seat thereto shall be preserved and a corresponding but reversed inclination be given to it when the seat-back is reversed.

The lower ends of the links D D are provided with pivots or projections b b, and, as will be obvious, their distance from center to center is greater when the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 8 than when the back is entirely turned over, as'in Figs. 1 and 2. To admit of such variation of distance between the pivots or projections, while maintaining the connection of the seat to the supportinglinks D D, each of the pivots b b is received and fits freely in a longitudinal slot or elongated bearing, 0, formed in the end of the frame or case in which the seat is fixed, or in a plate secured thereto. ings 0" permit the pivots or projections Z) Z) to freely change their relative positions in the movement of the links D D, while uniformly supporting the seat upon the pivots or projections in all positions of the latter.

A reverse arrangement of bearings and pivots may, if desired, be employed without variation of operative principle-that is to say, the pivots or projections can be liked to the seat-frame and the elongated bearings for their The elongated bearreception formed in the lower ends of thclinks back, a seat having elongated end bearings, D D. intersecting or crossed links pivoted at their I claim as myinvention and desire to secure upper ends to the seat-back and supported I 5 by Letters Patent- 1 between their ends on fixed pivots on the sup 5 1. The combination, substantially as set porting-frame, and pivots or projections 'for forth, of a seat provided with elongated end supporting the seat secured in the lower ends bearings and intersecting or crossed links pivof crossed links and fitting freely in the elonoted to the supporting-frame of the seat and gated bearings.

having pivots or projections for supporting the MATTHIAS N. FQRNEY.

19 seat fitting freely in the elongated bearings. XVitnesses:

2. The combination, substantially as set P M. F. BOYLE, forth, of asupporting-frame, a reversible seat- H.'A. J OYHNSTONE. 

